. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 358 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL September of fruits and to furnish the material needed for muscular work. "The variations in the composition of honey from one year to another have even been found in chemical analysis. In 1911, a very dry year, the proportion of glucose in honey rose to 72 to 74 per cent instead of the usual 65 to 68 per ; Paul Carton. (The reader will note that the nat- ural glucose in honey is entirely dif- ferent in its properties from the arti- ficially manufactured glucose pro- duced by the action of sulphuric acid upon st
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 358 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL September of fruits and to furnish the material needed for muscular work. "The variations in the composition of honey from one year to another have even been found in chemical analysis. In 1911, a very dry year, the proportion of glucose in honey rose to 72 to 74 per cent instead of the usual 65 to 68 per ; Paul Carton. (The reader will note that the nat- ural glucose in honey is entirely dif- ferent in its properties from the arti- ficially manufactured glucose pro- duced by the action of sulphuric acid upon starch, which the above writer condemns in the beginning of his article.—Editor.) CURING CHRONIC RHEUMATISM WITH THE STING OF BEES By J. R. Schmidt That rheumatism can be cured by the sting of the honeybee is the firm belief of George Renner, of Cincin- nati, who is taking this novel treat- ment to eradicate the disease from his system. Each Wednesday and Sunday morning IVIr. Renner visits the apiai-y of Fred Muth and submits to being stung by the honeybees. At lirst, when Mr. Renner could just hobble along with the aid of crutches, as high as ten stings were the strenu- ous treatment, but now Renner can walk without the aid of a cane, and only two stinging bees are applied twice a week. This novel treatment, painful as it may seem, is a welcome relief for the incessant pain of the rheumatism. "At first the sting of the bees was very painful to me and the swellings resulting from the stings were great, but as my system gradually became inoculated with the poison from the stings the pain and swelling gi-ew less in proportion. I can now take the stings without flinching and feel very little pain at all. It certainly is cur- ing ; Fred Muth explains the strange cure this way: "It is a well-known fact that the sting of the honeybee is made painful by the formic acid which enters the wound when the bee stings. This acid is contained in a tiny little bag attached to
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